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Nathan Brooker

House & Home editor

Nathan Brooker writes about UK and international property markets for the FT Weekend.

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  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Four of London’s most majestic Platinum Jubilee afternoon teas

    Mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne in sybaritic style at this quartet of the capital’s smartest hotels

  • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Nathan Brooker’s fantasy dinner party — Fran Lebowitz, James Joyce . . .  and George Costanza

    The FT’s House & Home editor invites a motley crew of raconteurs and Seinfeld’s pal to the Italian Riviera

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    House & Home
    The year the UK housing market defied gravity

    But there are reasons to believe that the ‘mini boom’ will not survive into 2021

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Prime property
    Hot property: Christmas escapes

    From a Grade II*-listed Elizabethan property in the UK to a ski resort in the French Alps

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Residential property
    England’s cladding crisis creates 2m ‘mortgage prisoners’

    Many flats left effectively unsellable as government struggles with aftermath of Grenfell disaster

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Special ReportRisk Management: Property
    Property offers ready shelter for criminal wealth

    Some argue that a cultural shift needs to take place in the property industry, akin to that which has been occurring at financial institutions

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    House & Home
    How our cities changed when the tourists stopped coming

    FT correspondents report on the residents reclaiming their home towns

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    European prime property
    Hot property: Italy’s Ligurian coast

    From a modern eco-friendly house to a Liberty-style villa

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    European prime property
    Hot Property: Provence toujours

    From a bastide with a greenhouse to a château with a vineyard

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    Television
    BingeWatch — This Country combines sharp comedy with pointed social comment

    The BBC mockumentary follows two cousins in a stagnating English village

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Thomas Keneally’s The Dickens Boy — an engrossing and transporting read

    A retelling of the plight of Charles Dickens’s sons in Australia

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    Prime property
    Hot property: English country houses

    From a Georgian farmhouse with an orangery in Oxfordshire to a three-storey house near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Bunker by Bradley Garrett — a look at the world of preppers

    How fears of disaster have created a multi-billion-dollar doom industry

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Prime property
    Homes for sale now: for celebrating summer

    From a farmhouse in Italy with picturesque gardens to a villa in France that would make a great setting for family reunions

  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    Prime property
    What next for Santorini's property market?

    Holiday rental investors hope to save summer season as tourists return

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Prime property
    To buy now: the best homes converted from workplaces

    From a brewery in London to a terracotta factory in Tuscany

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Menswear
    Savile Row tailor looks to lend some swagger to WFH

    With suits out of favour for now, Richard James is launching a new athleisure line

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Prime property
    Is now the right time to move to the country?

    Life in packed, polluted and pandemic-ridden cities has pushed many to dream of the rural life

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    Live Q&A: Everything you wanted to know about moving to the countryside

    Join our live discussion with FT columnist Luke Edward Hall and buying agent Mark Parkinson at 12 noon on Friday May 29

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    UK property
    How to navigate the post-lockdown property market

    Sellers can market their homes and buyers can view them — but it’s logistically complex

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    UK property
    The Covid-19 shutdown could harm first-time buyers for years to come

    Young people will be hardest hit financially by the pandemic, says a new report

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    What will the UK property market look like after lockdown?

    Join our live discussion with buying agent Henry Pryor on Friday May 8 at 12 and 5pm UK time

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    Weekend long reads
    Uncovering London’s hidden property wealth

    New laws are combating money laundering in the capital’s luxury homes market

  • Friday, 13 March, 2020
    UK property taxation
    The problem with the new stamp-duty premium for overseas buyers

    Intended to deter foreign purchasers and bring down prices, it could do the opposite

  • Friday, 21 February, 2020
    House & Home
    London’s property market has bigger problems than Airbnb

    The capital’s residents are relaxed about the rise of holiday rentals

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